Bothered Quote by Clarence Thomas

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats…

— Clarence Thomas

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

— Clarence Thomas

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you…

— Clarence Thomas

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to…

— Clarence Thomas

The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it…[I]f followed to its logical…

— Clarence Thomas

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference…

— Clarence Thomas

Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive…

— Clarence Thomas

A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech…

— Clarence Thomas

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything.…

— Clarence Thomas

I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

— Clarence Thomas

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who…

— Clarence Thomas

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

— Clarence Thomas